Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Katherine Parkinson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Katherine Parkinson.
Last updated on April 13, 2025.
Katherine Parkinson

Katherine Jane Parkinson is an English actress. She appeared in Channel 4's The IT Crowd comedy series as Jen Barber, for which she received a British Comedy Best TV Actress Award in 2009 and 2014, and was nominated twice for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, winning in 2014. Parkinson studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and has appeared on stage in the plays The Seagull (2007), Cock (2009), and Home, I'm Darling (2018), for which she was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Play.

People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you're so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on set with people you don't know, having to introduce yourself and make friends.
I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.
'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent. — © Katherine Parkinson
'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.
I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.
Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!
Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.
When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at St Mary's Hospital in London, and I begged them to let me see the post mortems. So the first time I saw a naked male was at 15, when I saw an 89 year old man who had died of a brain hemorrhage.
I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.
I admire any woman who does stand-up, but frankly I'd rather pull out my own eyelids.
You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.
Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie', is as funny as it gets.
Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie,' is as funny as it gets.
Im going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.
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